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George Harrison posed a question to Jimmy, "How come you don't write a ballad, you don't have any" Jimmy responded with this song. plus, he played homage to Harrison's way of writing chord progressions within this composition.
@@leddygee1896actually after a concert Harrison was talking to Bonham, & said one problem is they don’t have a ballad. He was surprised too, that they played for 3 to 4 hours without taking a break. Bonham told Jimmy about the ballad thing, Jimmy’s response, hold my beer.
@@monroegodette6440, you got that right! Between The Fabulous Forum and The Long Beach Arena, l can't tell you how many times l saw them. "LED HEAD" HERE!🤘😝🎶
The Rain Song is my favorite love song by Led Zeppelin. It makes me cry every time. That is a lot of crying since I remember when it first came out. Lol. George Harrison, in his critique of LZ, saying they don’t do ballads, inspired Jimmy Page to write the most incredible song. So thank you George (RIP).
This is why they were the most popular band of the 70's...period. Back in High School as you walked thru the parking lot this was almost all you heard coming from ppl's cars..Zeppelin
When I was in high school, every day I’d show up early so I could park my Mustang in “my spot” so I could crank up Zeppelin on my 8-track and blow my Pioneers OUT! The 70s was a GREAT time to be alive for music!
Yes! And we never had competing music! In my 68 Cougar, I didn't have an 8-track, so I parked as close as I could to the person that I knew would have the best music - that was the place to be during lunch! Then, in 1974 ((2 years after graduation) I saw Led Zeppelin in concert and, of course, it was better than anything on tape or radio! Best concert of my life!
@@danacasey8543 I wished had the opportunity to see them live (I’m so jelly). I got to see Robert Plant live for his Now and Zen tour and he was amazing which ultimately only regret never seeing Zeppelin live even more.
It's like the same soul divided into 4 separate beings when incarnating on this earth. You can see why the rumour of doing a deal with the devil is whispered around...
One thing of note about this live version of "The Song Remains The Same" is that Page plays the whole song on the 12 string neck of his doubleneck, including all the lead work; incredible playing. Then following it up on the 6 string neck of his doubleneck with "The Rain Song"; one of the prettiest songs ever written! Incredible song writing and playing!
Gentlemen another spectacular reaction. Strap your boots on pull up your pants and get ready for mind blowing trip. Wait until you hear Jimmy take you for a space trip with his guitar on Dazed And Confused . Side two is the entire improvised song 26 mins long. Enjoy what you are doing thank you for taking my request…
@@AirplayBeatswith the love of Bonham’s drumming, you really need to watch his 20 minute solo, I think the best version is from Earls Court (1975). It gives the best visuals of him playing, & definitely shows why he’s the greatest drummer. It’s called Moby Dick, he played that solo over 200 times, sometime during a 3 to 4 hour nonstop concert. I hope you check it out.
And to think this stuff is 50 years old. I still enjoy it as much as the first time I ever listened to it. Jimmy Page is probably my all time favorite musician. He said in an interview once that he wanted to make lasting music. Pretty sure he accomplished that.
Page and Bonham are at absolute PEAK as a unit in 1973. The Europe leg bootlegs in March are ridiculous. BTW the Rain Song is a damn masterpiece. It’s like listening to a grand symphony. I think with Zeppelin at this time the compositions and arrangements were just unmatched.
First saw this in 1977, walked in to the Oakland Theatre a Skynyrd fan, walked out a LZ fan till today! Best band EVER! Consider they play their songs, which many are difficult in the studio, and yet blast them into a new experience live!
Yes, 2nd Deck straight back from center of stage, last row. Loudest thing I ever heard. And had to wait over two hours before they came out..Saw Skynyrd same summer!@@steveguth1987
These three concerts were for their movie, The Song Remains The Same, so they all were in perfect form. They always tried to give their concerts their all, they loved playing for their fans. On occasion Plants vocals weren’t perfect with some notes, but he would still give it all he could. Their improvisation for each concert, making each one of a kind, is what made them so great. Page would play whatever flowed out of him, & Plant’s vocals would be what’re ever popped in his head. They always had total control over their music, that was a stipulation for signing with Atlantic Records. That’s why too Page produced mixed & edited all their albums, except I believe ITTOD. He’s done all the remastering, though he says not much is needed. He also did all the switching to CD’s, this band & their music is his baby, & he takes care of it.
I've been listening to this since 1978. I'm 60 years old now. The last song I hear in my time on this Earth? THIS recording of "The Rain Song"....and I'm NOT kidding.
Bill Graham was the concert promoter for the Oakland San Francisco concerts and MSG . He was a friend of Led Zeppelin. He stated at that time LZ was the only group that was guaranteed to instantly sell out 2 weeks at MSG. He also acknowledged LZ brought out a “dangerous” element in the fans because they were so intense and mostly male. His memoir is excellent with a whole chapter devoted to LZ. He tragically died in a helicopter crash.
@@thewraiths8963 I remember him saying "They were the only Initiation Band..... where their fans were willing to die for them." Only THEY had that power.
I used to fall asleep to this album all the time when I was a young kid. It was my older brothers album. We shared a room w bunkbeds. He was 15 I was 10. We wore this entire album OUT
Yes absolutely watch "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love", I want to see the part when your eyes pop out of your head like me and my brother way back when we saw this on VHS
It's always one hell of a pocket. I've read Bonham was actually following Page . Either way, they were really locked in! These guys really listened & played off each other.---These 2 cuts may be may fav live Zep. Man, they killed it! It was a peak. Also, on the studio recording of TSRTS Page plays may layers of riffs on top of each other. He has to play them individually live, & each one holds up on it's own.
Led Zeppelin is the Monster Jimmy Page put together as a vehicle for his vision. In the doing this, he created and guided them to being immorta. Their music will go on for generations. They are up there with the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and all the music that is like heirlooms to be passed to generations.
You guys do a great job of describing what they do musically, and that's why no one else has ever been able to pull this off. The genius of Jimmy Page knowing what he wanted to do and put these guys together is unprecedented. Put your seat belts on for Dazed and Confused! And also the Whole Lotta Love encore!
Btw , in the late 1970’s I went to a cinema and saw this concert , I was 11/12 years old and that was it for me ! I’ve been a huge Zeppelin fan ever since .
Led Zeppelin is incredible LIVE! I saw them at MSG, in 1976! It was something I will never forget! They are the best band ever!!❤️❤️❤️❤️RIP John Bonham!
The Mighty Zep ❤❤❤ Btw, Page always stood out in live performances. Live, with his studio wizardry stripped away, it was just the man and his guitar - and he was Awesome!
When i hear this album i think of sitting in MSG (1977), being perfectly stoned, and experiencing the magic of Led Zeppelin. To this day (& probably forever) the best concert I've seen.
I was too young, and on the other side of the world, but if I could time travel (and just travel 😂) I’d go back to be at this concert. I’m so jealous of anyone who experienced this live!!
One of my favorite Zeppelin Albums. This was a double album. And the albums rocked! I was in high school in B'ham Al when this live album was released. It was made in 1973, but this album was released 1976 I remember! Legendary Band! RIP Drummer, "John (Bonzo) Bonham!" 👍💯
By far my fav from them As a teen i had to learn this on guitar more than any song they played and at 59 i still play it at least 2 or 3 times a week The ending gets me every time Ita a masterpiece
You have to understand this concert was to be filmed over 3 nights at MSG in 1973, so that means they are going to bring their A game. LZ, individually shot fantasy sequences that were incorporated with Robert and SRTS/Rsin song, JPJ, No Quarter, Jimmy, Dazed and Confused, and Bonham, Moby Dick. The film sat in the can for 3 years until Robert's car accident then LZ released it that year in 1976.
There is an acoustic version of The Rain Song with only Page and Plant and an Orchestra. It’s one of the most beautiful versions I’ve heard. Page kills it on the acoustic guitar.
This live version of The Rain Song is so incredible , so moving and so beautiful . I’ve been listening to this for decades and it always brings me to tears but it’s also exhilarating as well . This live version of The Song Remains The Same is also powerful in a different way . They were truly masterful musicians. I don’t think we will come across this level of quality ever again , sadly .
I have the same look on my face when I listen to them, it's like I'm just thinking "Another banger, man, how many bangers does Zeppelin have?" Pretty much all of them that they wrote, and that's a lot.
The most astute observation of the way the guitar is always with the drums, which is not typical. Most complicated time signatures; and yet its gets pulled together. Any lesser musicians could easily devolve into chaos. Simply the GOAT.
You should have reacted to the video of this performance on their concert movie Song Remains The Same. Watching Page's solos is mind blowing and never gets old.
"Bohham brought a gun to a fist fight!" Damn! That says it all! Yes Bonham had two huge timpani drums on the left side of his kit. I remember the day he died. The music world was in shock, and I remember the tributes on the radio. Love your reaction and comments. Thanks
What a great reaction La & Che! I’ve been waiting for this particular one! There are so many great artists, bands but for me Beatles & Zeppelin were above the rest in creativity, impact, variety! Great! Like watching a La & Che react!
The Song Remains the Same was a feature-length movie they used to show in the theatres at midnight. Sometimes a double feature with Pink Floyd's The Wall. I've watched it a million times and will watch it a million more, it's an amazing performance caught in time as you guys have just said. Thanks for the genuine review, feeling it.
Guys, you did the Zeppelin catalog perfectly. Starting with all of their studio works allowed you to first understand their intent with every recording. Now your perspectives of their live performances come from experience. This is what so many reactors get wrong. Congrats 👈 🍻
Great reaction guys!! Live is where Zeppelin really shone - their studio albums are the stuff of legend, but live, they became the Hindenburg and were on fire! Page especially - something about performing, his bottle of Jack Daniels, cigarettes burning away - and he was FREE!! Not that Bonham & Jones were restrained, far from it - but as the rhythm section, they had to reign in Page after his six-string journeys! They knew how to improvise. Cheers!
This is an example of why I was known by my friends, in high school in the mid- to late 70s, as a Led Head. They are such incredible musicians. I haven’t heard it recently, but back then people described Bonham’s style as “lead drums” and you can certainly hear that in The Song Remains the Same..
I’ve probably listened to this version of the song The Song Remains The Same over a thousand times in my life and Jimmy Page blows my mind each and every time A giant. A Mount Rushmore guitarist.
Great descriptions of what amazing sonic eargasms Led Zeppelin truly creates! You guys are always on point with this incredible band. Keep up the great work.
Jimmy has always stood out for me ever since I heard black dog, Stairway to heaven is the most requested radio song in history and will be for a long time so in some ways you can best band ever
They were all geniuses in their own right! Like we used to say the gods came together with these four men! You DO have to watch how great they were live! Incredible!
“In between last time we can and this time, we managed to get an album out called Houses of the Holy and this is something that we decided was an apt title for a thing that's called The Song Remains The Same." Loved the original album without all the remastering. I think I know it note for note!! Happy that other songs released from that amazing show. The Rain Song is one of their wonderful “journey” type songs. Fantastic.
These four were geniuses, and I’m not exaggerating at all. Enjoy it, take it in, and relish it, because you will never hear anything quite as beautiful as this ever again.
This is my favourite version of Rain Song. It's magnificent. When time travel finally gets invented I will sell my literal soul to go back in time and follow them on tour.
So nice to wake up to another Led Zep reaction from you. You know, this was also a film so you can watch all of this. Yes, Bonzo had timpanis. Much love from the East Bay
Personally, in my opinion: the relationship between Page & Bonham was SO TIGHT and SO SPECIAL - they played off and WITH each other - almost like they were one person playing the drums and the guitar at the same time with four arms!! ....and, that relationship bled over into JPJ and Plant....they were just SUCH a SPECIAL and UNIQUE BAND that will, as far as I'm concerned, NEVER be even CLOSE to being DUPLICATED! :) Makes me happy to listen to ANY of their music!! JUST....SO....GOOD!!! ENJOY, FELLAS!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
From the very beginning of The Rain Song, you could have heard a pin hit the floor of the Garden, everyone in the crowd was so entranced by what they were hearing and seeing that they just wanted to enjoy the show. It may have had something to do also with the aroma in the air also.
Know what’s even more crazy? These shows at MSG I think there was 5 nights, came at the end of the tour. They were tired. A tired live Zep is still better than anything back then.
Heartbreaker and Whole Lotta Love must be played back to back as well. No real video for Heartbreaker but Jimmy and his Theramin on the other is great to see. Flaming gong and all. Enjoy guys.
The Rain Song is one of my favorite Zeppelin tunes. There is an incredible video out there of Page and Plant doing an acoustic version with a string orchestra. I think you guys would love it!!
The band was formed, by Page, to showcase how s guitar style. Btw, you dudes are helping me to hear Led Zeppelin for the first time, again, in forty years.
